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Biden and McCarthy Reach Debt Ceiling Deal to Avert U.S. Default
President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturday reached an agreement in principle to lift the debt limit for two years while cutting and cappin [...]
White House and G.O.P. Strike Debt Limit Deal to Avert Default
Top White House and Republican negotiators on Saturday reached a deal in principle to raise the debt limit for two years while cutting and capping som [...]
Unions close to pay deal with government to avert more NHS strikes
An agreement on health workers' pay could be announced as early as Thursday afternoon.
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How States Are Using Red Flag Laws to Try to Avert Mass Shootings
Judges in 19 states and the District of Columbia are issuing orders to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed dangerous, like a Florida teenager [...]
How Republicans could avert a debt ceiling showdown
Kevin McCarthy won the House speaker job in part by making himself a hostage of Republican hardliners, pledging high-stakes confrontations on issue [...]
Congress will probably avert a government shutdown — but the funding fight is far from over
Congress is once again at a spending stalemate, and it’s once again being driven by a familiar conflict: disagreement over how much to spend on soc [...]
Biden Signs Legislation to Avert Nationwide Rail Strike
President Biden had called on Congress to act, saying a rail strike would “devastate our economy.”
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Senate Poised to Pass Bill to Avert Rail Strike
Moving with uncommon speed, senators agreed to take up a House-passed bill that would impose a tentative agreement between rail companies and workers, [...]
House Moves to Avert a Rail Strike
The House was poised to approve a bill to impose a tentative agreement that President Biden helped broker earlier this year and a separate measure to [...]
Biden Helped Democrats Avert a ’22 Disaster. What About ’24?
A stronger-than-expected midterm showing has quieted the party’s public hand-wringing about a re-election campaign for President Biden. But it hasn’t [...]
U.S. should pump more oil to avert war-level energy crisis: JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon
Dimon said in June that he was preparing the bank for an economic "hurricane" caused by the Federal Reserve and Russia's war in Ukraine.Al Drago | Blo [...]
Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown
The stopgap spending measure was the final legislative deadline facing the Senate before the midterm elections. It heads to the House next, with a mid [...]
Lawmakers Propose Measure to Avert Government Shutdown This Week
The package would also provide major new aid to Ukraine, but its fate in an initial Senate vote on Tuesday is uncertain.
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House Passes Overhaul of Electoral Count, Moving to Avert Another Jan. 6 Crisis
The legislation, opposed by most Republicans, is a bid to update the law that former President Donald J. Trump tried to exploit on Jan. 6, 2021, to in [...]
Biden announces tentative labor agreement to avert national rail strike
President Joe Biden announced a tentative railway labor deal early Thursday to avert a national rail strike that threatened to shut a major segment of [...]